There is no trade news worth typing anything about. There is not even any trade news worth listing and mocking, which I do on occasion when the rage strikes me. It happens like this sometimes with big entertainment moments like the Breaking Bad finale. They’re like anti-singularities, pushing away everything from the vicinity. There’s one story for a week leading up to it and a week after, and launching meaningful news during that period is just a way to get your announcement ignored.

I mean there were apparently a bunch of runs of the trailers for Captain Philips and Need for Speed during the Breaking Bad finale (the latter for the obvious reason that it represents Aaron Paul’s deserved big paycheck). But no one wants to see those.

So I figured we’d go back in time, to a long time ago in the galaxy far far in 2012. Just what was the trade news back in the first week of October a year ago? It’s kind of interesting to look back on those articles just to see if we have much of a recollection of these events, especially in light of our particular vehemence or eagerness at the time.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Character Outline: First We Cancel Castle — Ah, yes, I vaguely recall writing this post. It was the first one I did about SHIELD, before I started refusing on principle to type all those stupid periods. It seems strange that only a year ago, there were no actors in these roles. Though I did make the obligatory Firefly joke at the time.

It’s Slipping Now: End of Love Trailer - TK ended up reviewing this and thought it was okay. I vented bile about the moral wrongness of the making of the film, but have since forgotten that it ever existed.